I gave my email address to the Internet Standard because I knew their code of ethics regarding email addresses, plus I wanted to go to one of their parties (never did, sigh)

When the Standard folded, their parent started sending me Fortune, which has given me a rather weird insight into a certain managerial mindset. I haven't minded it, beyond being perplexed and occasionally alarmed (I read pretty much everything that crosses my threshhold)

Now the mail begins.

We may, from time to time, contact you with offers for Time Inc. products and services which we think may be of interest to you. If you would prefer us not to contact you in this manner, and you did not previously indicate this preference, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at <no_solicit@timeinc.net>.

Additionally, from time to time we may provide your e-mail address to carefully chosen companies whose offers we think may be of interest to you. If you would prefer us not use your e-mail address in this manner, and you did not previously indicate this preference, please let us know by e-mailing us at <no_transfer@timeinc.net>.

I will point out that the Standard had guarenteed in writing on their website that they would never give my email to anyone. But in times of firesales...

Anyhow, I smell a lawsuit. Or maybe it's just all this dirty laundry....

This is why I use a different e-mail address for every silly little form that asks me for one (except this one; you won't give my address away, will you? :-) That way, when I start getting e-mail to radiouserland at example.com or ebay1 at example.com I know where they got my address from, and I can configure the Super Duper Anti-Spam-O-Matic to automagically reject anything that comes in to that address. It helps to have a host that automatically dumps everything that comes to my domain into my main mailbox unless otherwise instructed.

I don't understand why you're so surprised. A good company went under, and a bad company took over. Is it really that alarming? Maybe I've just been getting so much spam for so long that I'm becoming immune. And cranky, apparently.

I expected more by both the Standard and Fortune. Really, i though that Fortune and their parent Time-Warner had more class than that. I'm naive.

Time-Warner? Class? Don't hear those two phrases together often.

No. Because, Time-Warner bought the company that colorized Casablanca.

And Time-Warner is now owned by AOL, creator of the digital coaster.

Class is not a word I'd ever use to describe Time-Warner. Nope. Sorry.

Yeah, I'm still easily seduced by coka cola, IBM and the Wall Street Journal. A brand ho, I is!

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